Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Can anyone who lives up there give us a sense of what is going on??
I guess Coleman isn't that popular, but Franken is a comedian!!! What are the people thinking???
Didn't their experience with Jesse Ventura teach them anything?
Is Al coming across as a serious candidate?
What is going on in the cold north?
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
I am clinging to the idea that the Dems are going to go so far left that the Republicans rebound big time in 2010.Originally posted by: loki8481
it's a wave election.
find something to grab on to -- I hear clinging to guns works well.
Remember that congress's approval rating is so low that even Bush looks good compared to them.
Yeah, I see what you mean. He's a wimp. It should have been "Rush Limbaugh is a detritus spewing, gaping asshole".Originally posted by: ProfJohn
The guy wrote a book called "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot" and you wonder why some people don't take him seriously as a candidate?
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'll say this for him, he has the clearest, most well layed-out site when it comes to his positions that I've ever seen from a candidate.
Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'll say this for him, he has the clearest, most well layed-out site when it comes to his positions that I've ever seen from a candidate.
I agree; that is a nice looking website.
Originally posted by: Stiganator
I'm from Minnesota. I don't think Coleman has done a bad job, but I don't think he's done anything remarkable either and he's been at it for a long time, at least 12 years, possible more. So people are looking for some new blood to shake things up and maybe something good, notable will actually happen. Plus 60% of the population of Minnesota is on the blue side of things so yeah. I've gotten sick of ads from both sides, but I think much like the national election Norm has been playing dirtier than Al, but they have both settled down at this point. Minnesota is pretty progressive place, hence why we have some of the best medical care, overall health, schools, etc in the country. It's kind of like all the perks of NY or Chicago, minus most of the bad stuff and then scaled down by half.
Is this factually true? I thought delta hq has always been in the dreaded atlanta.Originally posted by: Genx87
We like to elect celebrities. We are still a small town state who gets ohhed and awed by the celbrity status of people.
I thought Wellstone was bad enough but Franken? The guy is a bitter far left winged bomb thrower. It would be like electing Sean Hannity to senate for your state. We get what we ask for though. One of the highest taxed states in the country and Business cant wait to flee from here either. NWA\Delt HQ going to Atlanta, big surprise. I posted a thread a month ago about an amendment that will add a state sales tax to pay for wildlife and other stuff. 59% of the people polled said they would vote for it without having the first clue what it was about. Only 10% knew what the amendment actually contained.
Originally posted by: seemingly random
Is this factually true? I thought delta hq has always been in the dreaded atlanta.Originally posted by: Genx87
We like to elect celebrities. We are still a small town state who gets ohhed and awed by the celbrity status of people.
I thought Wellstone was bad enough but Franken? The guy is a bitter far left winged bomb thrower. It would be like electing Sean Hannity to senate for your state. We get what we ask for though. One of the highest taxed states in the country and Business cant wait to flee from here either. NWA\Delt HQ going to Atlanta, big surprise. I posted a thread a month ago about an amendment that will add a state sales tax to pay for wildlife and other stuff. 59% of the people polled said they would vote for it without having the first clue what it was about. Only 10% knew what the amendment actually contained.
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Can anyone who lives up there give us a sense of what is going on??
I guess Coleman isn't that popular, but Franken is a comedian!!! What are the people thinking???
Didn't their experience with Jesse Ventura teach them anything?
Is Al coming across as a serious candidate?
What is going on in the cold north?
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
As I asked in the OP. Is he coming across as a serious politician??Originally posted by: UberNeuman
So, PJ - what's your issue with Al Franken, other than the Stuart Smalley film......
Or is he running some type of outsider joke campaign or something. I am in Florida and have no clue what is going on up there.
That is why I made this thread.
They are going to send a second rate SNL actor to congress??? What's next? Cooter from Dukes of Hazard?
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Just an FYI for everyone in the thread, Franken wrote a book a few years ago called, Why Not Me?, a fictional autobiographical account of him running for the presidency. I guess the U.S. Senate is just another step on the way up!
Franken in 2016? :laugh:
Originally posted by: sandorski
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
The guy wrote a book called "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot" and you wonder why some people don't take him seriously as a candidate?
and....